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Thanks Victor, I appreciate the shout-out. Keeping the messageboards alive is least I can do to support the effort you have continued to put towards the Orb. No donations needed, and I certainly don't want any donations toward the ransomware. I have no intentions of trying to go that route, I didn't...

Unfortunately, the VM that I run this messageboard on got hit with a Ransomware virus and encrypted everything including my most recent backups. I rebuilt and restored things back to a few months ago, that's the best I can do until an AV company comes out with a decryption tool for the variant I got...

The messageboard is back online. I apologize for the outage... I had my web server (I use the term "server" very loosely) crap out. I built a new machine and restored the boards, but failed to remember to set the static IP on the new machine so that it could be found via the web. No wonder its been ...

[quote="vputz"]ACK ACK ACK! Crud, sorry I didn't see this thread until waay late (I haven't followed this in a while and just logged in to check things).[/quote] Hey, it's my fault for not keeping up with you in the first place... You have had this project available for many months and I am just now...

Well, I have good news and bad news. The bad outweighs the good... Good News: I was able to get my OrbDuino to work. I remembered I had some original SpaceOrb power injectors that plug inline with the serial port to power the Orb... Once I plugged one of those in, I was able to get motion and button...

Still scratching my head on this one... Can't find anything wrong with my solder work, but everything points to an issue reading the serial from the orbshield. The ASCIITable test works, but the OrbShieldSerialTest1 doesn't. I don't get anything from the Orb. I plugged in a generic USB to serial ada...